War Is Stupid Dot Com: Observations on war

thoughts on peace and war

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Hawkeye: "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." Father Mulcahy: "Why do you say that, Hawkeye?" Hawkeye: "Simple, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?" Father Mulcahy: "Sinners, I believe." Hawkeye: "Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is full of them." — from the TV series *MASH**
War	"It is my earnest hope — indeed the hope of all mankind — that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice." — General Douglas MacArthur
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." — Thomas Mann	Is	"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace...." — M. E. W. Sherwood		Stupid	"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man." — Napoleon Hill
"Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war." — Indian film star Kamal Hassan			Dot	"When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all." — Anonymous
"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." — Mark Twain				Com

War	"War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?" — Guy de Maupassant
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." — Albert Einstein	Is	"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?" — Daniel Berrigan on burning draft cards during the Vietnam War
"... [W]ar is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting." — John Dos Passos		Stupid	"It is true that war is absolutely the best way to resolve conflict—provided that all other options have been explored and proven totally futile." — Anonymous
"General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic." — Albert Einstein			Dot	"An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war." — Mark Twain
"Why of course the people don't want war.... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." — Hermann Goering				Com
War	"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended ... and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people." — James Madison
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." — Jeannette Rankin	Is	Col. Potter: "By the way, what war is this?" Hawkeye: "The latest war to end all wars." — from the TV series *MASH**		"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." — Mohandas Gandhi
"It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man." — Sallust		Stupid	"What is human warfare but just this: an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party." — Henry David Thoreau
"Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries." — Ambrose Bierce	"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." — George McGovern		Dot	"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." — Dwight D. Eisenhower		"War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits." — James Madison		Com
War	"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix		"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared." — Henri Nouwen
"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always." — Sophocles	Is	"Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one." — Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) in the TV series *MASH**
"Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." — Anne O'Hare McCormick		Stupid	"...[W]ar is stupid. Underline it, make it seven feet high, and plaster it to a billboard, war is stupid." — Nicholas B. Morris
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children." — former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize (10 December 2002)			Dot	"Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war." — Titus Livius
"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die, like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." — Alexander Berkman				Com
War	"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." — Ernest Hemingway		"War's a profanity, because let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can." — Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace" — Benjamin Franklin	Is	"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." — Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address
"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it." — Will Rogers		Stupid	"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it." — Anne O'Hare McCormick
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.” — General William Tecumseh Sherman			Dot	"Laws are silent in a time of war." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions." — Robert Ardrey		"The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military." — Bill Clinton		Com
War	"It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." — Anonymous		"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace." — James Thomson
"What war has always been is a puberty ceremony." — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Is	"Sometimes I think there ought to be a rule of war that says you must see someone up close before you get to shoot 'em." — Col. Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) in the TV series *MASH**
"War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace...." — M. E. W. Sherwood		Stupid	"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man." — Napoleon Hill
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." — Franklin D. Roosevelt			Dot	"When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all." — Anonymous
"Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade—we call it globalization—should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?" — Howard Zinn				Com

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